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Southern Discomfort

A Memoir

by Tena Clark

Pub Date
02 Oct 2018

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In the bestselling tradition of The Help comes a riveting, and profoundly moving memoir set in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era about a white girl coming of age in a repressive society and the woman who gave her the strength to forge her own path—the black nanny who cared for her.

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Southern Discomfort

A Memoir

by Tena Clark

Pub Date
02 Oct 2018

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In the bestselling tradition of The Help comes a riveting, and profoundly moving memoir set in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era about a white girl coming of age in a repressive society and the woman who gave her the strength to forge her own path—the black nanny who cared for her.

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Pure

Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

by Linda Kay Klein

Pub Date
04 Sep 2018

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From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.

In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity...

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Pure

Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

by Linda Kay Klein

Pub Date
04 Sep 2018

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From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.

In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity...

Pub Date
07 Aug 2018

Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.

Grace once had the beginnings of a promising musical career, but she hasn’t been able to play her cello publicly since a traumatic event at music college years ago. Since then, she’s built a quiet life for...

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07 Aug 2018

Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.

Grace once had the beginnings of a promising musical career, but she hasn’t been able to play her cello publicly since a traumatic event at music college years ago. Since then, she’s built a quiet life for...

Pub Date
10 Jul 2018

In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.

America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical...

Pub Date
10 Jul 2018

In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.

America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical...

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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)

A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

by Sallie Tisdale

Pub Date
12 Jun 2018

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A straightforward, wise, and humorous narrative field guide for both the dying and those who love them by an author who brings a unique set of qualifications to this delicate subject—she's a Pushcart Prize-winning writer, a palliative care nurse with more than ten years of experience, and a lifelong Buddhist.

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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)

A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

by Sallie Tisdale

Pub Date
12 Jun 2018

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A straightforward, wise, and humorous narrative field guide for both the dying and those who love them by an author who brings a unique set of qualifications to this delicate subject—she's a Pushcart Prize-winning writer, a palliative care nurse with more than ten years of experience, and a lifelong Buddhist.

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Presidio

A Novel

by Randy Kennedy

Pub Date
21 Aug 2018

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Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being on the run.

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Presidio

A Novel

by Randy Kennedy

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21 Aug 2018

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Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being on the run.

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Gods of Wood and Stone

by Mark Di Ionno

Pub Date
17 Jul 2018

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American Pastime—The Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Roth—two men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood.

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Gods of Wood and Stone

by Mark Di Ionno

Pub Date
17 Jul 2018

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American Pastime—The Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Roth—two men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood.

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Many Love

A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)

by Sophie Lucido Johnson

Pub Date
26 Jun 2018

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Sophie Lucido Johnson gets a lot of questions when she tells people that she’s polyamorous. Many Love is an intimate look at this often misunderstood practice: its history, its misconceptions, and Sophie’s personal transformation from serial monogamist to proud polyamorist.

After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and...

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Many Love

A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)

by Sophie Lucido Johnson

Pub Date
26 Jun 2018

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Sophie Lucido Johnson gets a lot of questions when she tells people that she’s polyamorous. Many Love is an intimate look at this often misunderstood practice: its history, its misconceptions, and Sophie’s personal transformation from serial monogamist to proud polyamorist.

After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and...

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The Summer Sail

A Novel

by Wendy Francis

Pub Date
01 May 2018

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A trio of college friends who reunite aboard a cruise ship experience an unforgettable vacation in this compelling novel from the author of The Summer of Good Intentions, which was hailed as “everything a summer read should be” by Elin Hilderbrand.

Three college roommates are celebrating a twentieth wedding anniversary by taking a cruise to Bermuda. As the...

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The Summer Sail

A Novel

by Wendy Francis

Pub Date
01 May 2018

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A trio of college friends who reunite aboard a cruise ship experience an unforgettable vacation in this compelling novel from the author of The Summer of Good Intentions, which was hailed as “everything a summer read should be” by Elin Hilderbrand.

Three college roommates are celebrating a twentieth wedding anniversary by taking a cruise to Bermuda. As the...

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Tragedy Plus Time

A Tragi-comic Memoir

by Adam Cayton-Holland

Pub Date
21 Aug 2018

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In the tradition of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Truth & Beauty—from one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch,” a poignant tragicomic memoir about the author’s beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking relationship with his younger sister and the depression that took her life.

Adam Cayton-Holland went from a painfully sensitive kid growing up in...

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Tragedy Plus Time

A Tragi-comic Memoir

by Adam Cayton-Holland

Pub Date
21 Aug 2018

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In the tradition of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Truth & Beauty—from one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch,” a poignant tragicomic memoir about the author’s beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking relationship with his younger sister and the depression that took her life.

Adam Cayton-Holland went from a painfully sensitive kid growing up in...

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The Vanishing

by Sophia Tobin

Pub Date
05 Jun 2018

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silversmith’s Wife comes an “undeniably page-turning (Daily Mail) novel: “Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but ten times darker…as eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on” (Stylist).

On top of the Yorkshire Moors, in an isolated spot carved out of a barren landscape, lies White Windows, a...

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The Vanishing

by Sophia Tobin

Pub Date
05 Jun 2018

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silversmith’s Wife comes an “undeniably page-turning (Daily Mail) novel: “Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but ten times darker…as eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on” (Stylist).

On top of the Yorkshire Moors, in an isolated spot carved out of a barren landscape, lies White Windows, a...

Pub Date
12 Jun 2018

“A compelling and emotionally charged mystery that warrants comparisons to Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” —Library Journal

A captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia—a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds—who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately...

Pub Date
12 Jun 2018

“A compelling and emotionally charged mystery that warrants comparisons to Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” —Library Journal

A captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia—a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds—who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately...

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Duel to the Death

by J.A. Jance

Pub Date
20 Mar 2018

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From New York Times bestselling author and “grand master of the game” (TheProvidence Journal) J.A. Jance, an electrifying new thriller featuring Ali Reynolds.

After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin...

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Duel to the Death

by J.A. Jance

Pub Date
20 Mar 2018

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From New York Times bestselling author and “grand master of the game” (TheProvidence Journal) J.A. Jance, an electrifying new thriller featuring Ali Reynolds.

After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin...

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The Map of Salt and Stars

A Novel

by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Pub Date
01 May 2018

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“This imaginative but very real look into war-torn Syria is a must.” –Booklist (starred review)

This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—places...

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The Map of Salt and Stars

A Novel

by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Pub Date
01 May 2018

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“This imaginative but very real look into war-torn Syria is a must.” –Booklist (starred review)

This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—places...

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Preschool Clues

Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World

by Angela C. Santomero; Deborah Reber

Pub Date
03 Apr 2018

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The award-winning creator of Blue’s Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows’ powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational “clues” to ensure that preschoolers flourish academically, socially, and emotionally during this critical time.

The preschool years—when children...

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Preschool Clues

Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World

by Angela C. Santomero; Deborah Reber

Pub Date
03 Apr 2018

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The award-winning creator of Blue’s Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows’ powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational “clues” to ensure that preschoolers flourish academically, socially, and emotionally during this critical time.

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The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

A Novel

by Chris White

Pub Date
17 Apr 2018

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Named A Best New Book of 2018 by The Chicago Review of Books

H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the world’s rarest species, allowing nothing to get in his way—until he’s forced to confront his obsessions and what they’ve...

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The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

A Novel

by Chris White

Pub Date
17 Apr 2018

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Named A Best New Book of 2018 by The Chicago Review of Books

H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the world’s rarest species, allowing nothing to get in his way—until he’s forced to confront his obsessions and what they’ve...

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Form

My Autobiography

by Kieren Fallon

Pub Date
17 Apr 2018

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The definitive autobiography from Kieren Fallon, one of the world’s greatest and most controversial horseracing jockeys.

A six-time British Champion Jockey, Kieran Fallon was one of the best jockeys, winning more than 2,250 races, including the UK’s Derby three times, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe twice, and more 2000 and 1000 Guineas than anyone else in the...

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Form

My Autobiography

by Kieren Fallon

Pub Date
17 Apr 2018

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The definitive autobiography from Kieren Fallon, one of the world’s greatest and most controversial horseracing jockeys.

A six-time British Champion Jockey, Kieran Fallon was one of the best jockeys, winning more than 2,250 races, including the UK’s Derby three times, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe twice, and more 2000 and 1000 Guineas than anyone else in the...

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Get on Top

Of Your Pleasure, Sexuality & Wellness: A Vagina Revolution

by Meika Hollender

Pub Date
13 Mar 2018

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A smart, actionable guide to help women take control of their sexual health and learn about vital information in a pro-pleasure, safety-first, and sex-positive way from a leader in sexual education for the GirlBoss generation.

Women are suffering—especially in the eighteen to thirty age range. They’re suffering from misinformation, fear, intimidation...

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Get on Top

Of Your Pleasure, Sexuality & Wellness: A Vagina Revolution

by Meika Hollender

Pub Date
13 Mar 2018

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A smart, actionable guide to help women take control of their sexual health and learn about vital information in a pro-pleasure, safety-first, and sex-positive way from a leader in sexual education for the GirlBoss generation.

Women are suffering—especially in the eighteen to thirty age range. They’re suffering from misinformation, fear, intimidation...

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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

A Novel in Clues

by Nova Jacobs

Pub Date
06 Mar 2018

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*Book of the Month Club Selection*Indie Next Pick

“Hugely entertaining… The Last Equation of Isaac Severy is full of delight. Though Ms. Jacobs’s writing has echoes of Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West and J.D. Salinger, her terrific book displays in abundance a magic all its own.”—The Wall Street Journal

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in...

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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

A Novel in Clues

by Nova Jacobs

Pub Date
06 Mar 2018

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*Book of the Month Club Selection*Indie Next Pick

“Hugely entertaining… The Last Equation of Isaac Severy is full of delight. Though Ms. Jacobs’s writing has echoes of Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West and J.D. Salinger, her terrific book displays in abundance a magic all its own.”—The Wall Street Journal

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The Trouble with Henry and Zoe

by Andy Jones

Pub Date
06 Mar 2018

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From the bestselling author of The Two of Us comes a heartwarming, witty novel about love, the choices we make, and how life is never what we expect it to be—for fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Me Before You by JoJo Moyes.

Henry and Zoe have more in common than they realize. For a start, they both have pasts they’d rather leave behind.

After jilting his...

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The Trouble with Henry and Zoe

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The Trouble with Henry and Zoe

by Andy Jones

Pub Date
06 Mar 2018

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From the bestselling author of The Two of Us comes a heartwarming, witty novel about love, the choices we make, and how life is never what we expect it to be—for fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Me Before You by JoJo Moyes.

Henry and Zoe have more in common than they realize. For a start, they both have pasts they’d rather leave behind.

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Disobedience

A Novel

by Naomi Alderman

Pub Date
06 Mar 2018

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*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND RACHEL MCADAMS

*AUTHOR OF ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE READS OF 2017

When a young photographer living in New York learns that her estranged father, a well-respected rabbi, has died, she can no longer run away from the truth, and soon sets out for the Orthodox Jewish community in London where she...

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Disobedience

A Novel

by Naomi Alderman

Pub Date
06 Mar 2018

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*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND RACHEL MCADAMS

*AUTHOR OF ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE READS OF 2017

When a young photographer living in New York learns that her estranged father, a well-respected rabbi, has died, she can no longer run away from the truth, and soon sets out for the Orthodox Jewish community in London where she...

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What She Lost

by Susan Elliot Wright

Pub Date
30 Jan 2018

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From the author of The Things We Never Said comes an incredibly moving and heartrending novel about the difficult relationship between a mother and a daughter, and the effect that secrets and deception can have on a family.

Eleanor and her mother Marjorie have always had a difficult relationship. Although they’ve tried, they have always just failed to connect...

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What She Lost

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What She Lost

by Susan Elliot Wright

Pub Date
30 Jan 2018

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From the author of The Things We Never Said comes an incredibly moving and heartrending novel about the difficult relationship between a mother and a daughter, and the effect that secrets and deception can have on a family.

Eleanor and her mother Marjorie have always had a difficult relationship. Although they’ve tried, they have always just failed to connect...